01Areas we cover
Architectural drawings for Wimbledon's conservation-area homes
Wimbledon's older streets share one history and several designations. Merton splits the old conservation area into separate areas, with their own character assessments, and the right one decides what a council officer expects of your extension or roof. We start by finding it.
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02The record
Wimbledon on the record
| Measure | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation area | Wimbledon Village | No period | merton.gov.uk |
| Local fact | Wimbledon North Conservation Area covers approximately 114 hectares (282 acres). | No period | merton.gov.uk |
| Local planning consideration | Merton's conservation areas page names Article 4 directions only for the John Innes Merton Park and Wilton Crescent conservation areas, and points owners to its Article 4 web map to check individual properties. | No period | merton.gov.uk |
| Local fact | West Wimbledon Conservation Area Character Assessment (2004) | character assessment | merton.gov.uk |
| Conservation areas | 28 named conservation areas published by the council | No period | planning.data.gov.uk |
| Listed building entries | 243 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary) | No period | planning.data.gov.uk |
| Listed building consent decisions (PS2) | 24 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend) | 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026) | assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.
- Wimbledon Village: designation date not recorded
- Wimbledon North: designation date not recorded
- Wimbledon West: designation date not recorded
- Wimbledon Hill Road: designation date not recorded
- Wimbledon Windmill: designation date not recorded
- Wimbledon Chase: designation date not recorded
03The drawing
Constraints check: Merton
What we check first on any address in Merton. Counts are for the whole council area.
- A Conservation areas
- 28 named conservation areas published by the council
- B Listed building entries
- 243 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)
- C Heritage at Risk entries
- 23 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)
04The brief
How Merton divides Wimbledon
Merton's Wimbledon West character assessment says Wimbledon Village CA covers the historic core, with the Wimbledon Hill Road, North and West Wimbledon and Wimbledon Broadway CAs covering the village's extensions and part of the town centre. The areas on the council's list include Wimbledon Village, Wimbledon North, Wimbledon West, Wimbledon Hill Road, Wimbledon Windmill and Wimbledon Chase.
Part of the present Wimbledon North Conservation Area was first given conservation area status in 1976 as part of the Wimbledon Conservation Area, which was extended in 1986 and divided into three in 1987. Merton's 1996 Wimbledon Village design guide states that the area was originally part of the Wimbledon Conservation Area, designated in 1968 and extended in 1976.
05The detail
The larger areas and their papers
Wimbledon North Conservation Area covers approximately 114 hectares (282 acres). West Wimbledon Conservation Area covers about 103 hectares, stretching west from Wimbledon Village to Copse Hill and Cottenham Park and north-west to Caesar's Camp on Wimbledon Common. Areas of that size contain very different streets, so we read the character assessment for your part of it, not the headline description.
The documents differ in kind. For West Wimbledon the council's paper is the West Wimbledon Conservation Area Character Assessment (2004), and for the Hill Road area it is the Wimbledon Hill Road Character Assessment (July 2006).
Article 4 in Wimbledon: what the council does and does not say
Merton's conservation areas page names Article 4 directions only for the John Innes Merton Park and Wilton Crescent conservation areas, and points owners to its Article 4 web map to check individual properties. We check the web map for your property rather than relying on the list.
Where no direction applies, permitted development rights may still be limited by other designations, which the constraints check also covers.
Listed houses, loft roofs and basements
Merton records 243 list entries, 228 of them at Grade II, and 28 conservation areas. In its latest published year it decided 24 listed building consent applications. If your Wimbledon house carries a listing on top of its conservation area, the consent application has its own drawings, laid out in listed building consent drawings in Wimbledon.
A roof storey is tested against the street: mansard roof drawings in Wimbledon explains how, from £845. Below ground, see basement conversion drawings in Wimbledon. Other pages cover Clapham and Kingston Hill.
06The papers
What the drawings rest on
Party wall services
07Correspondence
Questions
Which Wimbledon conservation area is my house in?
Merton's Wimbledon West character assessment says Wimbledon Village CA covers the historic core, with the Wimbledon Hill Road, North and West Wimbledon and Wimbledon Broadway CAs covering the village's extensions and part of the town centre. We match your address to the right area in the free constraints check.
Does Wimbledon Village have an Article 4 direction?
Merton's conservation areas page names Article 4 directions only for the John Innes Merton Park and Wilton Crescent conservation areas, and points owners to its Article 4 web map to check individual properties. Because boundaries and lists change, we confirm the position for your address before we quote.
What does a drawing set for a Wimbledon conservation-area house involve, and what does it cost?
The first step is matching your address to its area and character assessment, which we do before quoting. After that the fee is fixed: a roof storey set starts at £845 including VAT, and the engineer's calculations for any structural change start at £295. The council's own application fee is paid to the council on top.
28
named conservation areas published by the council
Conservation areas, Merton. Source: planning.data.gov.uk
08Further reading
Drawings in Wimbledon
Nearby neighbourhoods
09Sources
Sources and dates
- merton.gov.uk, retrieved
- merton.gov.uk, retrieved
- merton.gov.uk, retrieved
- merton.gov.uk, retrieved
- planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved
- planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved
- assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, retrieved
- merton.gov.uk, retrieved
- merton.gov.uk, retrieved
- planning.data.gov.uk, retrieved
Licences
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Send us the address of your house.
We look up the conservation area, listing and Article 4 position, then reply with a fixed fee. A message before 3pm is answered the same working day.